You misunderstood. The original poster needs version 177.13 or higher nvidia drivers, because anything before 177.13 does not support the GTX 280 card. Version 177+ is not in any of the well known repos for Fedora 9. So if you are using Fedora 9 or older you can not use the nvidia driver in the repos. You can use the binary driver nvidia provides on their website but due to conflicts with other software it is not recommended. I have found a work around, although I have not thoroughly tested. I was able to create a newer rpm of the nvidia-x11-drv package, thanks to some help within the Fedora community.

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Originally Posted by John VV
(Post 3305292)

the kmod for kernel 2.6.26.5-45
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kmod-nvidia-2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686-173.14.12-5.lvn9.i686.rpm
for PAE
kmod-nvidia-PAE-173.14.12-5.lvn9.i686.rpm

so YES they are in the yum repos

olracdor

10-10-2008 04:08 AM

@blitzo

yeah! i got it working! but i used the driver from the nvdia website. i downloaded the latest kernel and installed the driver and its working fine now. THANKS guys!